Issue 316 - VS Code Go extension joins the Go Project (25)

▶  How Does it Feel to Develop Critical Web APIs in Go? — An online 20 minute talk from Women Who Code.

bimg: Fast High Level Image Processing Powered by libvips — Inspired by Sharp in the Node.js space, if you’ve got graphics you want to convert, crop, resize, watermark, or more, bimg may be for you.

Colly 2.1: A Fast and Elegant Web Scraping Framework — Somehow we missed the v2.0 release of this popular Web scraping library so here’s 2.1. Colly now has Go module support, improved user agents, a way to check if a URL has already been visited, and more. GitHub repo.

chess: Chess Package for Go — Provides common chess utilities such as move generation, turn management, checkmate detection, PGN encoding, and more.

LearnGo: A Large Collection of Go Examples, Exercises, and Quizzes — A repo full of resources for a (paid) course but which you could use independently.

The VS Code Go Extension Joins the Go Project — This brings the Visual Studio Code (allegedly the most popular editor in the Go world) extension into line with other editor-based initiatives from the core team and should prove to make that popular IDE even more so amongst Gophers.

Go 1.15 Beta 1 Released — Four months on from the release of Go 1.14 comes a glimpse at the next version of Go: 1.15. You’re encouraged to test this on your code and report any issues found. The draft Go 1.15 release notes show this to be a rather gentle, evolutionary release, although there is a new package time/tzdata for bringing platform independent...

The Use of Some Problematic Words Replaced in Go — “There’s been plenty of discussion on the usage of these terms in tech. I’m not trying to have yet another debate. It’s clear that there are people who are hurt by them and who are made to feel unwelcome by their use due not to technical reasons but to their historical and social context....

▶  Phil Wadler on Featherweight Go and Go Generics — Philip Wadler is a prolific computer scientist and programming language designer (Haskell, Orwell), particularly in the functional space. He was also involved in adding generic types to Java and here he discusses a potential design for generics in Go. Be warned, this is not entry level stuff! :-)

Communicating Between Python and Go with gRPC — An example of defining a gRPC service with Python and a gRPC client in Go. The next post (not yet released) will flip the script.

Containerize Your Go Developer Environment: Part 1 — The official Docker blog has kicked off a series about using Docker to bring some of the benefits of containers to Go development.

An Intro to Go for Non-Go Developers — Unless you just subscribed to this newsletter for research purposes, this probably isn’t for you, but it’s a pretty nice programmer-focused introduction you could forward to others, perhaps.

Optimize Your Golang Applications In One Place With Datadog APM — Datadog APM enables you to visualize how requests propagate through your distributed infrastructure end-to-end. Try it for free today.

Générer Un 'Flux' RSS en Go! — I saw Thibaut Barrère suggest you could train your French language muscles by enjoying a Go tutorial in French, and I thought.. why not! So here’s how to create an RSS feed with Go.. en Français. There’s plenty of code so you don’t really need to read it, either.

Fatih’s Question: Fun With json.Unmarshal — The question is quite perplexing, showing what seems to be an inconsistency in unmarshalling. However, Dave straightens it out, pointing (HA!) us in the right direction.

Google Authentication with Goth — Interacting with Google’s APIs never feels straightforward to me, but Goth seems to help make it a bit easier from Go.

Exploring the Container Packages (list, ring, and heap) — Examples of the three collections, including how to iterate through them and some reasons to be cautious. The Ring struct is quite interesting.

Want to Build a Platform Ecosystem in Go? — Skool is hiring its 2nd backend engineer in Los Angeles, CA. Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker. Apply now.

We Now Offer Remote Go, Docker or Kubernetes Training — We offer live-streaming remote training as well as video training for engineers and companies that want to learn Go, Docker and/or Kubernetes. Having trained over 5,000 engineers, we have carefully crafted these classes for students to get as much value as possible.

GoFakeIt: A Random Fake Data Generator — Basically Go’s answer to Ruby’s exhaustive Faker library. GoFakeIt has over 120 functions for generating things like names, email addresses, phone numbers, colors, etc.

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